EAN: 9783031192036

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN LAW ONE RIGHTS HUMAN AND AN...

This is an open access book.Animals are the traditional blind spot in human rights theory. This
book brings together the seemingly disparate discourses of human and animal rights  and looks
at emerging animal rights as new human rights. It approaches the question whether animals can
and should have human rights through a comprehensive review of contemporary human rights
philosophy  discussing both naturalistic and political justifications of human and animal
rights. On philosophical as well as practical grounds  this book argues that there are
compelling conceptual  principled  and prudential reasons for modernizing the human rights
paradigm and integrating animals into its protective mandate. Moreover  this book proposes the
novel One Rights approach as a new (post-)human rights paradigm for the Anthropocene. One
Rights advances a holistic understanding of the indivisibility and interdependence of human and
animal rights. This book explores how the systematic subjugation  exploitation  and
extermination of animals simultaneously contributes to some of the gravest social and
environmental threats to human rights  such as animalistic dehumanization and climate change.
This book submits that  in light of their socio-political and ecological interconnectedness 
human and animal rights are best protected in concert. The themes of this book are part of a
larger conversation about postanthropocentric legal paradigms emerging in the Anthropocene. For
human rights to survive in this era of anthropogenic crises  we need to abandon the toxic
ideology of human exceptionalism and embrace a more inclusive version of (post-)human rights
that tends to the nonhuman. This book intends to show that a holistic One Rights approach
promises to achieve better rights-protective outcomes for humans  animals  and their shared
planetary home.

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